What would happen if the world legalized theft?
What would happen if the whole wide world legalized theft and allowed thievery to happen?
Will the world be the same?
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What would happen if the whole wide world legalized theft and allowed thievery to happen?
Will the world be the same?
I got evicted without notice and landlord than stole my bike. Cops didn't do anything even though they could have stopped the robber since it had only been an hour. They did nothing about it. Crime is legal. If it's not murder or robbing a bank nobody gives a shit.
I just want to sleep, and dream of becoming the only drug lord in history who has never killed anyone, and never been caught by the authorities. I want to sell that California chronic.
... but it should be legal to shoot thieves in the head, because I hate thieves.
Well, the question is a bit unclear and here’s why.
Most jurisdictions don’t recognize any crime called “theft.” They recognize a number of crimes such as robbery, burglary, and larceny that people all commonly refer to as “theft.”
So, which of these crimes specifically would be legalized? If just larceny, which is arguably the most straightforward of the “theft” crimes, it would be bad, but certainly not as bad as legalizing burglary and/or robbery which would also effectively allow people to break into other people’s homes/businesses and to steal from people using physical force/threats.
However, it’s important to remember that most “theft” crimes, even in the case of simply just larceny, overlap significantly with other crimes that are usually committed in the process such as trespassing, breaking and entering, threatening, assault, fraud, forgery, or computer/hacking crimes. So even if robbery, burglary and larceny were all legalized it’s difficult (but not impossible) to commit any of these types of thefts without somehow committing some other crime in the process that the law could could still go after you for
No matter what though, legalizing any/all of this is obviously a horrible idea. But exactly how horrible depends on a lot of things.